Feds To Talk Milk Prices With NY Dairy Farmers

U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., says Justice Department officials will meet
later this month with upstate New York farmers and consumers over claims
anticompetitive practices are driving down prices paid to dairies at the same
time retail milk prices soar.

The meeting with Schumer and the top federal antitrust investigator will be at
Genesee Community College in Batavia on March 29.

The public will be able to make statements and share concerns with Assistant
Attorney General Christine Varney.

Schumer says the price paid to dairy farmers is the lowest in nearly four
decades, while prices paid by consumers are high. That’s part of what’s forcing
dairy farmers out of business.

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